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Intermediate Algebra where students get a solid foundation in algebra with early and frequent exposure to functions and an empasis on modeling with full integration of the graphing calculator. The goal is to prepare them for success in College Algebra or their next math course.
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Clear, lively style covers all basics of theory and application, including mathematical models, elementary concepts of graph theory, transportation problems, connection problems, party problems, diagraphs and mathematical models, games and puzzles, graphs and social psychology, planar graphs and coloring problems, and graphs and other mathematics.
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The Holy Grail of Graph Theory.......2005-08-17
This is, for all purposes, the Holy Grail of Graph Theory. It is older, but still very much applicable. As a computer scientist (instructor and Masters degree student), I highly recommend this for students studying Discrete Mathematics and Graph Theory.
It has several examples throughout and the presentation is excellent. Many books on mathematics from this 'era' tend to be overly wordy and full of poorly explained examples and topics. This book suffers very little from this problem.
I recommend this to anyone looking for a good introductory book on Graph Theory. It also makes an excellent reference book for even the experienced individual.
Chemistry, Neural Nets, Matrix Manipulation -- all here.......2003-04-04
While working on my math degree I wanted some light reading on Graph Theory for completing some side projects. This book hit the spot, and the examples saved me.
Chartrand uses applications from every field of interest (e.g. finance, Chemistry, Physics, games, social psychology, computers, etc.) Who would have thought that while reading a math book that a friendly discussion of social psychology would pop-up? Well, that's how Chartrand is able to keep us moving through the pages; he uses the common to reveal the mysteries of Graph Theory. Who doesn't know about the Tower of Hanoi or the Knight's Tour or the one-boat-fox-and-chickens problems? All of these classics make for ready connecting points, leading us into profound restatements of well-known problems. Not much space is devoted to creating artificial problems for which we must be convinced need solving, and so the book is rather thin (a real bonus for those of us who don't want to spend a month in a math book).
Picking up the book after having read it so long ago, I was happy to find that the chapters are nearly autonomous and can be profitably read by themselves -- so keep it as a reference and jump in as the need arises, you'll be both entertained and mathematically illumined.
My only complaint is that the writing style is rather thick with mathematical lingo (seemingly) for the sake of being technically pithy. I am not convinced that such is necessary for a good math book.
Excellent overview for those with solid math background.......2002-07-03
This book is excellent, especially if you already have a pretty good background in math. I don't... high school math through calculus, almost all of which I've forgotten. But the appendix gets you up to speed on the basics of sets, functions, and proofs using mathematical induction. That was enough for me to get a lot out of all but the last chapter, which deals with matrices and groups. Although I have to admit that I occasionally needed to read an example four or five times before I really got it.
I definitely recommend this book for anyone interested in graph theory and to any serious software developer (which I why I picked it up). The ideas presented are directly applicable to that line of work.
Fantastic Book!.......2001-09-06
Most books assume that the reader has a month to carefully read the book. In reality, the reader often has a day or two and needs a solid understanding of the material but not a really detailed understanding. This book is great because it quickly and clearly covers all of the necessary concepts. What else can you ask for?
Great introductory book to graph theory.......2000-04-30
This book is really god and informative, the topics are clearly explained even to the most novice of readers. Many practice problems. Highly recommended for computer science major.
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This book emphasizes combinatorial ideas including the pigeon-hole principle, counting techniques, permutations and combinations, Pólya counting, binomial coefficients, inclusion-exclusion principle, generating functions and recurrence relations, and combinatortial structures (matchings, designs, graphs). The volume provides a complete examination of combinatorial ideas and techniques. For individuals interested in combinatorial concepts.
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nice accessable text.......2007-04-15
Most (but not all) of the copious errors in earlier editions have been fixed.
(Brualdi maintains an errata list on his website.) I like this book a lot,
it has a nice, relaxed style of exposition and the choice of topics is good
for an introductory course.
Interesting Problems, Too Many Mistakes.......1999-01-04
I used the book to guide me through a Combinatorics class I took in the summer of 1998. The author has presented some very interesting problems like prove that of any 10 points chosen withen an equlateral triangle of side length 1, there are 2 whose distance apart is at most 1/3 that use some interesting techniques such as the pigeonhole principal. The book, however contained too many mistakes. My professor said on average there is one mistake per page and he wasn't exagerating either. Luckily with his help, we corrected the many mistakes and then were successfully able to use the book. I notice that the author has written a new edition. I hope most of the mistakes have been corrected because when I pay a good sum of money for a book I expect it to be good book without errors.
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Graphs: An Introductory Approach--A First Course in Discrete Mathematics
Robin J. Wilson , and
John J. Watkins
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The only text available on graph theory at the freshman/sophomore level, it covers properties of graphs, presents numerous algorithms, and describes actual applications to chemistry, genetics, music, linguistics, control theory and the social sciences. Illustrated.
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Discrete Mathematics is one of the fastest growing areas in mathematics today with an ever-increasing number of courses in schools and universities. Graphs and Applications is based on a highly successful Open University course and the authors have paid particular attention to the presentation, clarity and arrangement of the material, making it ideally suited for independent study and classroom use. An important part of learning graph theory is problem solving; for this reason large numbers of examples, problems (with full solutions) and exercises (without solutions) are included.
Accompanying the book is a CD-ROM comprising a Graphs Database, containing all the simple unlabelled graphs with up to seven vertices, and a Graphs Editor that enables students to construct and manipulate graphs. Both the Database and Editor are simple to use and allow students to investigate graphs with ease. Computing Notes and suggested activities are provided.
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Graph Theory: An Introductory Course (Graduate Texts in Mathematics)
Bela Bollobas
Manufacturer: Springer
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From the reviews: "Béla Bollobás introductory course on graph theory deserves to be considered as a watershed in the development of this theory as a serious academic subject. ... The book has chapters on electrical networks, flows, connectivity and matchings, extremal problems, colouring, Ramsey theory, random graphs, and graphs and groups. Each chapter starts at a measured and gentle pace. Classical results are proved and new insight is provided, with the examples at the end of each chapter fully supplementing the text... Even so this allows an introduction not only to some of the deeper results but, more vitally, provides outlines of, and firm insights into, their proofs. Thus in an elementary text book, we gain an overall understanding of well-known standard results, and yet at the same time constant hints of, and guidelines into, the higher levels of the subject. It is this aspect of the book which should guarantee it a permanent place in the literature." #Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society#1
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Focusing on the core material of value to students in a wide variety of fields, this book presents a broad comprehensive survey of modern combinatorics at an introductory level. The author begins with an introduction of concepts fundamental to all branches of combinatorics in the context of combinatorial enumeration. Chapter 2 is devoted to enumeration problems that involve counting the number of equivalence classes of an equivalence relation. Chapter 3 discusses somewhat less direct methods of enumeration, the principle of inclusion and exclusion and generating functions. The remainder of the book is devoted to a study of combinatorial structures.
Customer Reviews:
Reasonable, but not exceptional text.......2003-02-04
Bogart has done a decent job with this text. It does a good job of covering a broad selection of topics and is generally readable. Beware the typographical errors, as they are often very subtle and leave you wondering if it was an error or if you just don't understand. Don't let Chapter 1 give you the wrong impression of the text, as it belabors things much more than the rest of the text does. It initally left a bad taste in my mouth, but the remainder of the book provides the right amount of exposition, except for a few points in Chapter 6 (Combinatorial Designs) where Bogart leaves too many proofs as exercises without giving a sufficient idea on how to complete the proof.
One of the most complete combinatorics books around..........2001-06-18
I was amazed at the quality of the descriptions in this book. It has easy to understand examples and does a very good job of connecting combinatorics and graph theory. It even has integer partitions and Stirling numbers.
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INTRO COMBINATORICS & GRAPH THEORY
Edition: 0000000
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ISBN10: 0536809550
ISBN13: 9780536809551
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1/1/2004
Publisher(s): PEARSON CUSTOM PUBLISHING
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Concise, undergraduate-level text focuses on combinatorics, graph theory with applications to some standard network optimization problems, and algorithms to solve these problems. Applications are emphasized and more than 200 exercises help students test their grasp of the material. Appendix. Bibliography. Answers to Selected Exercises.
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Avoid this book, droogs.......2002-02-16
I've taken a first semester Discrete Math course, and am currently taking the second semester of it. I bought this book on a whim, hoping it might supplement my text, or at least clarify a few points. It fails at both of those things. Here's why:
1) Abundant errors: I read the first 15 pages and found at least one *serious* typo per page (i.e. a typo that could impede learning). Plus, the grammar ranges from illegal to ambiguous. Thankfully, I was familiar with all of the material that I was reading -- were I not, severe confusion and discouragement would have been the result.
2) Poor examples: They're too abstract or too simple -- and there aren't even very many of them. Oftentimes, he contradicts what he's trying to illustrate due to a small oversight or typo. It's truly bad.
3) Gratuitous brevity (yes I know that may sound paradoxical): The author uses compound sentences in his definitions; sometimes going as far as to define two or three concepts IN THE SAME SENTENCE! It's infuriating.
4) Chapter Zero: This deserves its own rant section. Chapter zero contains nearly all of the material from the first four chapters of my current textbook: Logic, Set theory, Induction, Relations, etc. Somehow the author crams all of it into about 24 pages (plus 4 or 5 pages of exercises). He fails at clarity or lucidity. It's an ambomination -- it reads like lecture notes (you know, the ones only the professor looks at).
OK -- I WANTED to like this book. It's kind of cute, I'll admit it. And the price is sweet. But friends, you get what you pay for. Even after I came across the first 5 or so serious typos I was willing to forgive. Eventually, the sheer amount of contradictory examples and ambiguous sentences riled me up so much that I considered tearing the book in half. Really. I doubt I'll ever open the thing again.
Excellent Text.......2000-12-04
As with any Dover text, it is important to remember that this text is designed to teach the material, not to coddle the reader. This text provides broad and deep coverage of the various topics that fall under discrete mathematics (set theory, boolean logic, graph theory, etc.) with clarity and simplicity. This book is not designed to help you pass a test, but is instead designed to help you grasp and understand the topic, which it does very well. Easily the best book I own on this topic (I often joke that the author covered my first semester course on discrete math in the first chapter!).
Too succinct for the discrete novice.......2000-08-30
I learned much more from the Schaum's Outline (ISBN: 0070380457 -Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Discrete Mathematics (Schaum's Outline Series) by Seymour Lipschutz, Marc Lipson (Contributor), Seymour Lipschultz ).
That book overcomes the two shortcomings of this one: for a self-proclaimed introductory work on discrete mathematics, this text contains too few worked out in-chapter examples, and too many omitted steps in the reasoning. On this latter point, there were many times my reading brought me to the phrase "It follows from the definition that..." or "obviously..." when, for me, it didn't follow, or it wasn't obvious. Contrary to another reviewer's assessment, I found quite a lot of typos, but none too serious. To its credit, the book does contain a lot of end-of-chapter problems with solutions, and it is inexpensive.
The author of the text I review here wrote another in this field, the Schaum's outline series offering with ISBN 007003575X, which is not the Schaum's text I recommend above. I express no opinion on this other work of his.
Near-Useless Garbage.......1999-12-09
This is an unreadable, low quality text. The theorems and proofs are explained in a ridiculously formal and boring style. I challenge you to read and understand a full page of this book on your first try. Avoid at all costs, and if your professor is using this text, avoid the course at all costs, and try talking some sense into your professor.
Near-Useless Garbage.......1999-12-09
This is an unreadable, low quality text. The theorems and proofs are explained in a ridiculously formal and boring style. I challenge you to read and understand a full page of this book on your first try. Avoid at all costs, and if your professor is using this text, avoid the course at all costs, and try talking some sense into your professor.
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Introductory Graph Theory
Bela Andrasfai
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Understanding Environmental Policy Processes: Cases from Africa
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* How are environmental policies created and once put to effect, why are they so difficult to change despite sometimes becoming detrimental to the environment they are set up to protect?
* African environmental policy is largely controlled by Northern concepts of how the environment should be handled - are these Northern ideals best for Africa itself?
* What can be done to make policy making more participatory
This book offers a critical analysis of the "post-Rio consensus" on environment and development and questions the role of particular forms of internationalized elite scientific expertise. It poses the question of why certain understandings of environmental change stick with such tenacity. In exploring this the authors unravel the politics of knowledge surrounding policy making, looking particularly at Ethiopia, Mali and Zimbabwe and their land and soils management. The book also looks at prospects for more inclusive, participatory forms of policy making.
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Title: Science, policy process, and policy ownership in Africa and the Caribbean.(Understanding Environmental Policy Processes: Cases from Africa)(Book Review)
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Title: Understanding Environmental Policy Processes: Cases from Africa.(Book Review)
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